Pari Dukovic

One of Hortense Mitchell Acton’s Callot Soeurs gowns in the Camera Verde of Villa La Pietra. The gold and silver lace at the neck, the apron skirt, and the five metallic rosettes across the chest recall the forms of a Gothic cathedral. The sleeves are made of metallic lace, now oxidized. CreditPhotographs by Pari Dukovic View full screen

A number of years ago, a young painting conservator entered a forgotten storeroom in a fifteenth-century Florentine villa and stumbled on a pile of Louis Vuitton steamer trunks. She opened them and discovered a collection of exquisite dresses, the kind usually seen only in movies, or inside protective vitrines in museums. Closer inspection revealed silk labels, hand-woven with the name “Callot Soeurs.”

Pari Dukovic’s photographs from Istanbul a year after protests engulfed the city, with an introduction by Raffi Khatchadourian and audio interviews with some of the photograph subjects. Click the image below to view the portfolio.

Rag & Bone is one of a number of newer fashion labels that have attracted investment from Andrew Rosen, the founder of Theory. The partners in the company, Marcus Wainwright and David Neville, were friends at school in England and came to New York in 2001 and 2003 respectively. Neither of them had a background or any training in fashion. They started with a line of men’s jeans, produced their first men’s collection in 2004, and added a women’s collection the following year. In 2010, they were named Menswear Designers of the Year by the Council of Fashion Designers of America. ♦

Punk in nineteen-seventies New York tended to be more concerned with aesthetics than with politics. It was spare, nervy music created in reaction to the embarrassing excesses of arena rock. Often, the “establishment” it railed against was your mom, or your school principal. (The final scene of the Ramones’ movie “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School” is Vince Lombardi High exploding in flames.) Decades later, a punk diaspora thrives around the world. In Myanmar, a small punk community that stayed underground through decades of military rule is beginning to emerge. Until last October, bands had to submit their lyrics to government censors before they performed in public or released an album. Now they are free to turn up the volume on songs such as CultureShock’s “Urban Rubbish”: “Every day, everything I see is just so nauseating / Immoral, corrupted, devastated society / And we don’t wanna live in a place where everything is declining” (translated by the group’s vocalist, Scum). Meanwhile, the former site of CBGB, on the Bowery, is a John Varvatos store, where a man’s slim-fit leather jacket (with no studs) goes for $2,298.